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A Defect is Being Born: How Close Are We? A Time Sensitive Forecasting Approach
Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2
Background. Defect prediction has been a highly active topic among researchers in the Empirical Software Engineering field. Previous literature has successfully achieved the most a…
SQuaD: The Software Quality Dataset
Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Davide Taibi +2
Software quality research increasingly relies on large-scale datasets that measure both the product and process aspects of software systems. However, existing resources often focus…
What Were You Thinking? An LLM-Driven Large-Scale Study of Refactoring Motivations in Open-Source Projects
Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2
Context. Code refactoring improves software quality without changing external behavior. Despite its advantages, its benefits are hindered by the considerable cost of time, resource…
Autonomic Microservice Management via Agentic AI and MAPE-K Integration
Matteo Esposito, Alexander Bakhtin, Noman Ahmad +4
While microservices are revolutionizing cloud computing by offering unparalleled scalability and independent deployment, their decentralized nature poses significant security and m…
A Call for Critically Rethinking and Reforming Data Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering
Matteo Esposito, Mikel Robredo, Murali Sridharan +3
Context: Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) drives innovation in SE through qualitative and quantitative studies. However, concerns about the correct application of empirical met…
Evaluating Time-Dependent Methods and Seasonal Effects in Code Technical Debt Prediction
Mikel Robredo, Nyyti Saarimaki, Matteo Esposito +3
Background. Code Technical Debt (Code TD) prediction has gained significant attention in recent software engineering research. However, no standardized approach to Code TD predicti…
In Search of Metrics to Guide Developer-Based Refactoring Recommendations
Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2
Context. Source code refactoring is a well-established approach to improving source code quality without compromising its external behavior. Motivation. The literature described th…
On the correlation between Architectural Smells and Static Analysis Warnings
Matteo Esposito, Mikel Robredo, Francesca Arcelli Fontana +1
Background. Software quality assurance is essential during software development and maintenance. Static Analysis Tools (SAT) are widely used for assessing code quality. Architectur…
Ignoring Time Dependence in Software Engineering Data. A Mistake
Mikel Robredo, Nyyti Saarimaki, Rafael Penaloza +1
Researchers often delve into the connections between different factors derived from the historical data of software projects. For example, scholars have devoted their endeavors to…
Does Microservices Adoption Impact the Development Velocity? A Cohort Study. A Registered Report
Nyyti Saarimaki, Mikel Robredo, Sira vegas +3
[Context] Microservices enable the decomposition of applications into small and independent services connected together. The independence between services could positively affect t…